The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-06-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

BOX car, complete, was built in four
hours at Admission, Ala.
THE American refugees in Canada are
talking OF forming club.
THE late Justice Woods estate is valued
at from $50, 900 to 100000.
A BRIDGE is to be built across the Mis-
souri, river at Sioux City, Ia.
FNDLAT's maximum daily gas yield
would equal $500 tons of coal.
INVITATIONS keep coming to. the .Presi=,
dent TO visit various portions of the ecun-
try.
THE proposed monument TO General Lee
, at Richmond, Va, Will not be begun until
fall.
THE New York Legislature has declared
everlasting hostility to the English spar
row.
A PRETTY town named Gladstone has
been founded In the San Gabriel valley,
California
No LESS than $4,000 persons assembled the
Washington Monument during the year
ending April /.
THERE is a village in Wales with name
containing seveuty-two letters and TWEEN
ty-two syllables.
KANSAS will send $4,000 veterans to the
National encampment which is to be held
in st. Louis in September.
ASTRONOMERS are discovering good
many of those celestial tramps otherwise
known as comets, this year.
In one of the French schools there is a
natural magnet which is said to be capable
of lifting four times its weight.
AT recent type-writing contest in New
York Miss NJ. &. Grant wrote 34 words in
four minutes and forty-two seconds.
FROM one tree recently felled at Bowers
vile, o., it is said that 400 fence posts
and twenty-five cords of stove wood were
cut.
THE Shah OF Persia would like some
enterprising American capitalist TO help
develop his kingdom by constructing rail
ways.
SADIE MoYER Of Lansford, Pa, is ten
years old, weighs 1876 pounds, and is TAX
ing on fat at the rate of two pounds
week.
A RESIDENT of Savannah exhibits 124
large sweet potatoes, which were grown
on single vine. They completely fill
barrel,
PRoF. CARL BRAUN, of Bates College, says
that the Devils darning needle has no
sting at all, but he eats millions Of mos
quitoes."
WALKING conservatories il the latest
name for the forally decorated women
seen on the fashionable thorOTg hfRres and
IN snowy eqn ippgeS. .,sc ~''".''~
DIVORCED women are barred from Queen
VictOrias receptions. This old rule is held
10 religiously by the Queen, and she will
make no exceptions.
AFTER all it is consoling to reflect that
tho American dollars taken over 10 Eng
land by Henry Irving win be brought back
by Hon. Buffalo Bill.
THE British authorities have again de-
clared that the Gate City Guards of At
lanta, Ga, will not be permitted TO parade
on English territory.
IL is announced that Il will take fully six
months before the English government can
demonstrate Icy set1sf experiment Wneth-
er coercion will coerce.
New York has grocer named Coffey,
curled-hair dealer named Willcomb, milk
dealers named Well and Water and cloth
ing firm named Taylor a. Cutter.
THERE is considerable likelihood that at
least portion of the crown jewels of
France will spend the summer at some one
OF the American watering places.
RUSSIA has decided that the Russian
language is good enough for Russian chill
dren, and this shall be the Language Of
education throughout the empire.
ANGLERS in the State of New York are
being considerably annoyed by law
which makes the catching of trout less
than six inches long misdemeanor.
An Alsatian who tattooed himself all
over with "Vive Ia France" was impris-
oned for six months when he came to be
examined for admission TO the German
army.
THE New York hotel men are now so
well organized that out of the income
from $1,000 guests day they lose less than
one per cent. of their profits by reason of
beats.
BosToS doctor raises his solemn voice
against cotton stockings for winter wear
He says they are destroying the women of
New England with rheumatism and neu-
ralgia
GLADSTONE has a library containing 49,
600 volumes. Works ON theology are tho
most numerous. He also has large depart
ments devoted to Shakespeare, Dante and
Homer.
WHEs the time came for Theodore Baker
20 let the sheriff Of Las Vegas know that
he was ready to be hanged he said. oL.et
her 60, Gallagher" and died without a
struggle,
SOMEBODY stF0iiod into the sanctum Of n
Mississippi editor. aud addressed him as
"a fostering aQpp on the body politlc.n The
intruder wlll oza his meals in bed until
further nothk
hAyRssfRAw (cTl woman, who be.
iieved there was good luckn In having n
bird fiy Ia house, chased acanary uirdi In,
and In doing 80 upset and broke q ten.dol.